Women in the War

Women in the War
Tanya Bailey
HIS/110 - US HISTORY TO 1865
July 8, 2014
Richard Alexander

Women in the War Abigail Adams In the video, consideration of women’s rights, women played a tremendous role in the revolutionary war. Women provided their services by contributing in any way possible to the solders and the war. Abigail Adams was addressed as the first lady because she started a change that would affect all women in America. “As the colonial fight for independence from the mother country ensued, Abigail Adams was appointed by the Massachusetts Colony General Court in 1775, along with Mercy Warren and the governor's wife Hannah Winthrop to question their fellow Massachusetts women who were charged by their word or action of remaining loyal to the British crown and working against the independence movement” ("First Lady Biography: Abigail Adams", n.d.). As Abagail stood by her husband trying to ensure all women were loyal to the solders other women also put forth efforts to help with the war. Women had fundraisers to produce money so solders could have new shirts and uniforms. The revolutionary war helped not only the fight against England but women in the new world. Continuing efforts to come up with ways women of the solders could contribute, a door to door program was started. Women were walking to each house to collect anything for the troops. Everything that the women gathered either help towards bullets, clothes, food, and medical supplies. Clothes were hand stitched by the wife’s of the solders and the women that accompanied their husbands brought all of the supplies with them. A true effort was put forth by the women of the revolutionary war but they were sometimes not recognized for their role in the war. Time has shown that even the important women were finally recognized for the hard work that the women put in during the war.…...

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